What kinds of clubs do you participate in at vet school and what sorts of activities do they have? Someone recently told me that LMU's student clubs are not allowed to have wet labs which seems silly to me.
Clubs in Vet School
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I can't speak to all vet schools or to LMU specifically, but at Mizzou we have loads of different clubs you can join for all different specialties and areas of vet med! Some examples are bovine club, Equine club, internal medicine club, emergency and critical care club, zoo and wildlife club, behavior club, anesthesia club, small ruminant and camelid club, Christian veterinary fellowship, and the list goes on! I believe the majority of our clubs do offer wet labs - I am in internal med club and we did an echo lab, mock surgery on rat cadavers, and a physical exam lab. Most clubs like to do dinner meetings and lunch and learns too - for those, oftentimes someone comes in and lectures about something related to that specialty (like doing a cases night, talking about a specific procedure, etc.) and you get tasty food out of it!
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There’s been clubs for practically everything at all of the schools I’ve been affiliated with. I personally was a member of SAVMA, was head of pathology club, and was a member of a bunch of others like the equine, small ruminant, and a bunch of others. First year I joined a ton and then in subsequent years I was a bit more choosy. But club dues were minimal and most meetings had meals provided, so if nothing else it was a good strategy for what felt like “free” lunch or dinner. But there were clubs for all the major species interests and pretty much all the specialty groups (radiology, path, surgery, ecc, parasite, etc.), and then also social fraternities, lgbtq+allies club, the business club, student ambassadors who did tours, etc. The clubs would sometimes have speakers come, the large animal based ones would do hospital rounds monthly, and some clubs did do wetlabs. Path club did necropsy wetlabs and cytology rounds plus helped with weekly pathology show and smell rounds, equine would do a joint injection lab on cadavers and also had a colt castration clinic, I think the cat club did cadaver declaws but that was back a really long time ago when that wasn’t as taboo of a procedure as it is now, small ruminant club did shearing and hoof trims on a faculty members herd, etc.
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I have a feeling that was either a one-off or a misinterpretation of something - the vast vast majority of schools have the ability for their clubs to do wet labs. I personally have been involved in a huge number of them, including a dentistry with oral surgery one on cadaver heads for the anesthesia club and one with joint injections on cadaver equine legs for the equine club. You do have to file specific paperwork for them, especially if you want to use live animals, but it's entirely possible to do a ton of wet labs as a club in vet school. But don't discount lunch/dinner lectures, free food!!!
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I was a member of 20+ clubs and active in 5 or so as far as executive member and all that jazz. Did plenty of wet labs.
I have a doctor in my practice that graduated from LMU in 2024 and definitely did wet labs. So I wonder if it was a situation of not having access to cadavers for wet labs rather than complete banning of wet labs. For a school without a teaching hospital, wet labs are a saving grace
I have a doctor in my practice that graduated from LMU in 2024 and definitely did wet labs. So I wonder if it was a situation of not having access to cadavers for wet labs rather than complete banning of wet labs. For a school without a teaching hospital, wet labs are a saving grace
Maybe so. I thought it seemed really weird.
